The next few months… the Olympics, the Democratic convention here in Denver, a fews days later CEDIA in the same place…. then, of course, The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest.

We will cover CEDIA and RMAF.

The convention…? Well, I guess I *could* take photos… of the microphone and sound system. Of the people, well, we don’t take photos of people. Too boring … or too embarrassing… depending on how you look at it. 🙂

We got a bunch of smaller stuff this summer – a lot of it burning in on the Nordost ViDar. We should be getting our Audio Note M9 Phono pretty soon now….

Haven’t bought much in the way of music… but Neli tells me she just bought a ton of classical and weird rock-and-roll (like Henry Kaiser … yep, that is definitely classified as weird ;-)) over in Princeton NJ. So, I guess we will have some new music to listen to after all. Or new old music. Or, they are used, so old old music.

Haven’t decided what we are taking to show in our rooms at RMAF yet. This topic always elicits lots of .. ahem… discussion.

September is almost here – and things always pick up as we move back indoors and the shows do help to spark ideas for the blog. 🙂

OK, this may indeed be the lamest post of all time… but dusting is something we have to do here a lot.

It is a dry climate, we live in the mountains, and we have a ‘mountain house’ which is to say it is not hermetically sealed. And we have a lot of equipment.

This means we end up dusting a lot [especially before auditions, and ESPECIALLY before auditions where a female of the species will be in attendance].

We have used these dusters, made for cars, for several years now.

The ones we get these days are pretty big – about 18 inches long [We have a lot of equipment, and furniture, and we are lazy – and this is kind of like having a double-wide vacuum cleaner – gets the job done twice as fast :-)].

They do have a special chemical that attracts dust – which is a lot better than just moving it around, like cotton dusters do, and a lot better than the spray EndDust-like products, which leave junk on the components which then seems to attract more dust than ever [BUT do NOT leave these just sitting on something, because the chemical will leach out of the duster and onto whatever it is sitting on – but if you do forget – hope is not lost: it does seem to evaporate over time].

Supposedly the duster works better after it is dirty…

But after awhile, it just seems WRONG to drag the dirty thing over nice equipment – like these speakers.

So we got the new duster ($9.95 at Target) and I thought you all might want to [or not :-)] see what we use before it gets put into use.